Charles T Clotfelter
Biographic Data
| ID | 915801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles T Clotfelter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles T |
| FAMILY NAME | Clotfelter |
| SIGNATURE | CLOTFELTER C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4723-2947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice
The decades-long resistance to federally imposed school desegregation entered a new phase at the turn of the new century. At that time, federal courts stopped pushing racial balance as a remedy for past segregation and adopted in its place a color-blind approach to evaluating school district assignment plans. Using data that span 1998 to 2016 from North Carolina, one of the first states to come under this color-blind dictum, we examine the ways i…
School Segregation at the Classroom Level in a Southern ‘New Destination’ State
Overview of the Volume
The chapters in this volume add new empirical evidence and new thinking to issues of system-level, campus-level, and classroom-level effectiveness. They were chosen by the editors from among sixty-two proposals submitted to the Russell Sage Foundation. Our choices were based on the quality of the
U.S. Higher Education Effectiveness
Steven Brint, Charles T. Clotfelter, U.S. Higher Education Effectiveness, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1, Higher Education Effectiveness (April 2016), pp. 2-37
Die‐Hard Fans and the Ivory Tower's Ties that Bind
Objective This study examines extremely loyal fans of prominent American college sports teams. It seeks to find out how common they are and what their characteristics are. Methods The study defines die‐hard fans as those whose published obituaries both note this loyalty and mention the team name for a specific university. A sample of such fans associated with 26 universities is compared to individuals picked at random from obituaries from the sam…
New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina
Since 1990, Latin American immigrants to the United States have dispersed beyond traditional gateway regions to a number of "new destinations." Both theory and past empirical evidence provide mixed guidance as to whether the children of these immigrants are adversely affected by residing in a nontraditional destination. This study uses administrative public school data to study over 2,800 8- to 18-year-old Hispanic youth in one new destination, N…
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
We use data on statewide end-of-course tests in North Carolina to examine the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level. We find compelling evidence that teacher credentials, particularly licensure and certification, affects student achievement in systematic ways and that the magnitudes are large enough to be policy relevant. Our findings imply that the uneven distribution of teacher credentials by …
The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8
Using data for North Carolina public school students in grades 3 to 8, we examine achievement gaps between white students and students from other racial and ethnic groups. We focus on cohorts of students who stay in the state's public schools for all six years. While the black-white gaps are sizable and robust, both Hispanic and Asian students tend to gain on whites as they progress in school. Beyond simple mean differences, we find that the raci…
Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina
Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects
Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness
Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd and Jacob L. Vigdor
Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers
Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low‐performing schools to attract and retain high‐quality teachers
Administrative data from North Carolina are used to explore the extent to which that state's relatively sophisticated school‐based accountability system has exacerbated the challenges that schools serving low‐performing students face in retaining and attracting high‐quality teachers. Most clear are the adverse effects on retention rates, and hence on teacher turnover, in such schools. Less clear is the extent to which that higher turnover has tra…
Private Schools, Segregation, and the Southern States
This article considers the role of private schools in an assessment of segregation in K-12 schools, with special reference to the South. It presents evidence to support two main conclusions. First, private schools have grown in importance in the South since 1960, in contrast to their declining importance in the rest of the country. This contrary trend can be attributed to the region's small proportion of Catholics, to its rising affluence, and to…
Charitable Giving, Income, and Taxes: An Analysis of Panel Data
Charitable Giving, Income, and Taxes: An Analysis of Panel Data by Gerald E. Auten, Holger Sieg and Charles T. Clotfelter. Published in volume 92, issue 1, pages 371-382 of American Economic Review, March 2002
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities
Data to Support Scholarship on Nonprofit Organizations: An Introduction
Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987–1996
The effect of interracial contact in public schools on the enrollment of whites has been an important concern in assessments of desegregation since the 1970s. It has been feared that “white flight”—meaning exit from or avoidance of racially mixed public schools—could undermine the racial contact that desegregation policy seeks to enhance. This study examines this question using recent data. It also expands coverage from large urban districts to e…
Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
Preface I. Setting the Stage 1. Why Do Costs Keep Rising at Selective Private Colleges and Universities? 2. Who Is in Charge of the University? II. Wealth and the Quest for Prestige 3. Endowment Policies, Development Policies, and the Color of Money 4. Undergraduate and Graduate Program Rankings 5. Admissions and Financial Aid Policies III. The Primacy of Science Over Economics 6. Why Relative Prices Don't Matter 7. Staying on the Cutting Edge in…
The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium
Despite the involvement of two-thirds of economists in it, the higher education industry remains incompletely understood. Among the topics related to higher education that invite further research are the rapid increase in college costs, the interaction of tenure and the end of mandatory retirement, and the effects of college enrollment on income inequality. Data from surveys of freshmen suggests that the gap in socioeconomic status between studen…
Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
By the Numbers: State Lotteries under Scrutiny
Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education
On trends in private sources of support for the US non-profit sector
The three major sources of financial support for non-profit institutions are user fees, government transfers and private contributions. Chapter 2 of the Nonprofit Almanac focuses on the last of these, which is taken to include charitable donations of money and assets (from individuals, corporations and estates), volunteer work and foundation grants. These forms of support, according to the chapter's introduction, ‘provide a barometer of public su…
Economic Challenges in Higher Education
Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987–1996
The effect of interracial contact in public schools on the enrollment of whites has been an important concern in assessments of desegregation since the 1970s. It has been feared that “white flight”—meaning exit from or avoidance of racially mixed public schools—could undermine the racial contact that desegregation policy seeks to enhance. This study examines this question using recent data. It also expands coverage from large urban districts to e…
Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low‐performing schools to attract and retain high‐quality teachers
Administrative data from North Carolina are used to explore the extent to which that state's relatively sophisticated school‐based accountability system has exacerbated the challenges that schools serving low‐performing students face in retaining and attracting high‐quality teachers. Most clear are the adverse effects on retention rates, and hence on teacher turnover, in such schools. Less clear is the extent to which that higher turnover has tra…
Private Schools, Segregation, and the Southern States
This article considers the role of private schools in an assessment of segregation in K-12 schools, with special reference to the South. It presents evidence to support two main conclusions. First, private schools have grown in importance in the South since 1960, in contrast to their declining importance in the rest of the country. This contrary trend can be attributed to the region's small proportion of Catholics, to its rising affluence, and to…
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities
Private security and the public safety
Crimes, Disorders, and the Demand for Handguns: An Empirical Analysis
In a recent paper, Bordua and Lizotte (1979) analyze determinants of firearm ownership using cross‐sectional data for Illinois counties. Noting that firearms may be purchased for the purpose of sport, self‐protection, or crime, they present clear evidence of sporting demand and limited evidence of defensive motives in the pattern of gun ownership. Crime rates are significant only in the equation explaining gun ownership by women (1979: 161). The …
On the Economics of State Lotteries
This article examines several aspects of the economics of state lotteries, focusing primarily on the demand for lottery products. We begin by giving a descriptive overview. The succeeding sections examine the motivations for playing lottery games and evidence on the determinants of lottery demand. The final section considers the welfare economics of the apparent objective of lotteries-to maximize profits for the state
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice
The decades-long resistance to federally imposed school desegregation entered a new phase at the turn of the new century. At that time, federal courts stopped pushing racial balance as a remedy for past segregation and adopted in its place a color-blind approach to evaluating school district assignment plans. Using data that span 1998 to 2016 from North Carolina, one of the first states to come under this color-blind dictum, we examine the ways i…
New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina
Since 1990, Latin American immigrants to the United States have dispersed beyond traditional gateway regions to a number of "new destinations." Both theory and past empirical evidence provide mixed guidance as to whether the children of these immigrants are adversely affected by residing in a nontraditional destination. This study uses administrative public school data to study over 2,800 8- to 18-year-old Hispanic youth in one new destination, N…
The Closing Door: Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity
Urban school desegregation and declines in white enrollment: A reexamination
Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education
Die‐Hard Fans and the Ivory Tower's Ties that Bind
Objective This study examines extremely loyal fans of prominent American college sports teams. It seeks to find out how common they are and what their characteristics are. Methods The study defines die‐hard fans as those whose published obituaries both note this loyalty and mention the team name for a specific university. A sample of such fans associated with 26 universities is compared to individuals picked at random from obituaries from the sam…
On trends in private sources of support for the US non-profit sector
The three major sources of financial support for non-profit institutions are user fees, government transfers and private contributions. Chapter 2 of the Nonprofit Almanac focuses on the last of these, which is taken to include charitable donations of money and assets (from individuals, corporations and estates), volunteer work and foundation grants. These forms of support, according to the chapter's introduction, ‘provide a barometer of public su…
Data to Support Scholarship on Nonprofit Organizations: An Introduction
Redefining "Success" in the State Lottery Business
Explaining unselfish behavior: Crime and the helpful bystander
The Effect of School Desegregation on Housing Prices
SINCE 1954 nearly all vestiges of legal segregation of public schools in the South have been eliminated. But, at the same time, the suburbanization of households in Southern cities has contributed to the de facto resegregation of some schools. Just as the Tiebout hypothesis (1956) suggests that households locate according to their preferences regarding local public goods, there is some evidence to indicate that preferences for segregated schools …
Urban Crime and Household Protective Measures
Berg, Sanford V., Increasing the Efficiency of the Journal Market, Journal of Economic Literature 9 (Sept. 1971), 798-813. Bronfenbrenner, Jean, Sources and Size of Least-Squares Bias in a Two-Equation Model, in William C. Hood and Tjalling C. Koopmans (eds.), Studies in Econometric Method (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953), 221-235. Bush, Winston C., Paul W. Hamelman and Robert J. Staaf, Quality Index for Journals, this REVIEW 56 (Feb. 197…
Private security and the public safety
Discussion of papers presented by William G. Colman and Gary Orfield
Urban school desegregation and declines in white enrollment: A reexamination
Explaining unselfish behavior: Crime and the helpful bystander
Crimes, Disorders, and the Demand for Handguns: An Empirical Analysis
In a recent paper, Bordua and Lizotte (1979) analyze determinants of firearm ownership using cross‐sectional data for Illinois counties. Noting that firearms may be purchased for the purpose of sport, self‐protection, or crime, they present clear evidence of sporting demand and limited evidence of defensive motives in the pattern of gun ownership. Crime rates are significant only in the equation explaining gun ownership by women (1979: 161). The …
Tax Evasion and Tax Rates: An Analysis of Individual Returns
Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving
The United States is distinctive among Western countries in its reliance on nonprofit institutions to perform major social functions. This reliance is rooted in American history and is fostered by federal tax provisions for charitable giving. In this study, Charles T. Clotfelter demonstrates that changes in tax policy--effected through legislation or inflation--can have a significant impact on the level and composition of giving. Clotfelter focus…
Redefining "Success" in the State Lottery Business
Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America
On the Economics of State Lotteries
This article examines several aspects of the economics of state lotteries, focusing primarily on the demand for lottery products. We begin by giving a descriptive overview. The succeeding sections examine the motivations for playing lottery games and evidence on the determinants of lottery demand. The final section considers the welfare economics of the apparent objective of lotteries-to maximize profits for the state
Selling Hope
The Closing Door: Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity
On trends in private sources of support for the US non-profit sector
The three major sources of financial support for non-profit institutions are user fees, government transfers and private contributions. Chapter 2 of the Nonprofit Almanac focuses on the last of these, which is taken to include charitable donations of money and assets (from individuals, corporations and estates), volunteer work and foundation grants. These forms of support, according to the chapter's introduction, ‘provide a barometer of public su…
Economic Challenges in Higher Education
Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education
By the Numbers: State Lotteries under Scrutiny
Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium
Despite the involvement of two-thirds of economists in it, the higher education industry remains incompletely understood. Among the topics related to higher education that invite further research are the rapid increase in college costs, the interaction of tenure and the end of mandatory retirement, and the effects of college enrollment on income inequality. Data from surveys of freshmen suggests that the gap in socioeconomic status between studen…
Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987–1996
The effect of interracial contact in public schools on the enrollment of whites has been an important concern in assessments of desegregation since the 1970s. It has been feared that “white flight”—meaning exit from or avoidance of racially mixed public schools—could undermine the racial contact that desegregation policy seeks to enhance. This study examines this question using recent data. It also expands coverage from large urban districts to e…
Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
Preface I. Setting the Stage 1. Why Do Costs Keep Rising at Selective Private Colleges and Universities? 2. Who Is in Charge of the University? II. Wealth and the Quest for Prestige 3. Endowment Policies, Development Policies, and the Color of Money 4. Undergraduate and Graduate Program Rankings 5. Admissions and Financial Aid Policies III. The Primacy of Science Over Economics 6. Why Relative Prices Don't Matter 7. Staying on the Cutting Edge in…
Charitable Giving, Income, and Taxes: An Analysis of Panel Data
Charitable Giving, Income, and Taxes: An Analysis of Panel Data by Gerald E. Auten, Holger Sieg and Charles T. Clotfelter. Published in volume 92, issue 1, pages 371-382 of American Economic Review, March 2002
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities
Data to Support Scholarship on Nonprofit Organizations: An Introduction
Economics (30 works) · Political science (23 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Business (15 works) · School Choice and Performance (14 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Demography (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)